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The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Colic Symptoms in Infantile Colic Infants: A Randomized Controlled Study

NCT04286737 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2020-10-14

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Summary

Aim: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of therapeutic touch applied to infants with infantile colic on infant colic scale score, crying and sleep time.

Method: The study will be conducted as a single-blind, randomized controlled trial. The population of the study will be infants who come to the Pediatrics Outpatient Clinic and are diagnosed as infantile colic according to the evaluation of the pediatrician and have no other health problems. The infants will be divided into two groups as intervention and control groups according to stratified block randomization in the computer environment. After the randomization, therapeutic touch will be applied to the intervention group. No method will be applied to the control group.

Conditions

  • Infantile Colic
  • Therapeutic Touch

Interventions

OTHER

Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic Touch will be applied to infants for 3 consecutive days, once a day, 10 minutes at any time during the day. There will be a four-day break. The Therapeutic Touch will be done a total of 6 times in 2 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Selda Ateş Beşirik, Res. Assist. · Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

  • Emine Geçkil, Professor · Necmettin Erbakan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Weeks
Max Age
12 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-03-02
Primary Completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-10-11

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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